WeChat, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WeChat comes up
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 25:25 Benedict Evans Does WeChat go global?
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 7:17 Benedict Evans Because no one can actually, I mean, I can install WeChat on my iPhone, but none of the services exist outside China.
- ▶ 30:02 Lillian Li That goes on because all of them also just like goes on Twitter or like, or post on the WeChat and it's not even like shade, uh, you know, so like bite dancers, like just, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:20 Lillian Li But, you know, then Ponymar would, like, reply back in the moments of, like, oh, I think you're being too sensitive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 Lillian Li WeChat pay in mini apps that just unlock so many more frictionless ways of interacting.
- ▶ 34:07 Lillian Li You can go into a restaurant, scan a QR code, order, pay within this kind of instance, you know, single serve app experience within WeChat, and then just leave in the way that I don't think you can do in Facebook Messenger or Facebook,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:25 Benedict Evans And to me, that's always much more interesting than saying does WeChat go global?
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 29:02 Benedict Evans And this is sort of interesting that there was sort of step one as a couple of years ago is WeChat goes global and that clearly didn't happen. 2 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 4:06 Benedict Evans And you really saw this a couple of years ago with the whole bots thing, like, cause WeChat is a thing, which is WeChat, here is this app with lots of other services and products that happen inside it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans So a couple of years ago, a lot of people were saying, oh my God, WeChat, WeChat's going to win in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:50 Benedict Evans Well, it's interesting to look at some of the conversation that came out of India around how WeChat failed in India, which was essentially not a digital story or even a China India story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Benedict Evans Um, and clearly like Facebook tried to copy WeChat and failed completely.
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 8:49 Benedict Evans I mean, there's an interesting thing in the States document where they set out very carefully social networks outside America don't count, where they're trying to rule, they're trying to stop Facebook from talking about WeChat, for example.